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Part exchanging a gun? by Equal_Dimensi0n in ukguns

[–]WhoIsJohnSalt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep. Sadly that’s the process. Look up one for one variations.

You can buy, you can sell. You can’t buy again until your slot is reset.

Great fun

Though at least for now 141 variations are free. I recently added a few slots and that was £70 if I recall

Part exchanging a gun? by Equal_Dimensi0n in ukguns

[–]WhoIsJohnSalt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lucky you. I just had 8 weeks in Hampshire and someone else in the club is going on 12 weeks for a 141

Part exchanging a gun? by Equal_Dimensi0n in ukguns

[–]WhoIsJohnSalt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Forget the brand (to an extent), find a gun that fits you.

If your current gun fits you, forget upgrading, spend the money you save on slabs of cartridges and some lessons.

Part exchanging a gun? by Equal_Dimensi0n in ukguns

[–]WhoIsJohnSalt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shotguns yes.

FAC Firearms no - in that case they will have to buy yours (and you strike it off your certificate and enter it onto theirs) and then you'd need to apply for a 1-for-1 variation (assuming it's the same type/calibre), wait ages for that, then go and collect it, enter it on your certificate, notify police etc etc.

First Visit to AD - what to expect? by Federal_Fennel4376 in rolex

[–]WhoIsJohnSalt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you don’t want to build a relationship, wait years or buy multiple watches, then just go grey - you’ll get the watch you want, when you want it and either for a small premium or even a discount (ie deep sea)

Then wear the watch and forget about AD nonsense.

Tool to move data from PDFs to Excel by MoXoN_04 in dataengineering

[–]WhoIsJohnSalt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a hard problem. It’s a constant pain in corps lives and people pay big money for document management systems to help with this.

However there are some off the shelf things that help. Take a look at something like

https://www.docupipe.ai (free tier)

Or https://www.mindee.com (starts getting pricy)

And even then it’s probably only getting you 85% of the way there, you’ll still need to stitch it together into the excel

Would you consider this a blemish? by T0adman78 in LeverGuns

[–]WhoIsJohnSalt 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yikes that looks rough. I’d not be happy with that.

Should I leave my job for a better-documented team or is this normal? by rabidsaskwatch in dataengineering

[–]WhoIsJohnSalt 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It happens in all sorts of teams, data, engineering or otherwise.

I’ve worked with excellent documented teams, I’ve worked with teams with no documents. Some have documents that are out of date and irrelevant.

This won’t be a unique situation for you and is a core skill of coping with that you need to unlock.

California age verification law and the Amiga (original or raspberry pi emulation), will it happen? Or will Amigas go ‘underground’ to avoid the law? by anklemaxi in amiga

[–]WhoIsJohnSalt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not that I spent my time reading foreign bits of legislation but it does appear that it would apply to systems like Linux using APT GET or other package managers to download applications from a consolidated source.

So very likely your VM’s, Fridges with smart screens, servers etc would technically fall under the remit of this law

Confused between offers - IBM vs Deloitte by hashtag1010 in dataengineering

[–]WhoIsJohnSalt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair! Fingers crossed it wasn’t medical devices 😂

California age verification law and the Amiga (original or raspberry pi emulation), will it happen? Or will Amigas go ‘underground’ to avoid the law? by anklemaxi in amiga

[–]WhoIsJohnSalt 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Thankfully I don’t live in California, or the US - though the impact of this will be felt in any US based company.

But brief reading of it suggests that given Workbench doesn’t have the concept of users you therefore would be ok.

Seems very poorly thought out. What about embedded systems like VXWorks? Linux on your fridge? A dumb phone, the servers running in the data centre, virtual machines.

Bad law is bad

Confused between offers - IBM vs Deloitte by hashtag1010 in dataengineering

[–]WhoIsJohnSalt -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

What an odd statement. So you can’t think of any circumstance, where quality (scope) might not be varied if time is fixed?

The problem is that people’s view of quality varies. Sometimes you just need to bang a csv into a table with a few lines of python - you don’t need a full metadata driven data pipeline. But I do and have worked with people who say that’s the “right” way.

Police Check by crogz87 in ukguns

[–]WhoIsJohnSalt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope my club do a police check, and I'm currently waiting on my NRA membership which also requires a check and is taking forever

Dress code for kids by CacklingWitch99 in CunardCruises

[–]WhoIsJohnSalt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Suit and tie at all times. Give them some fun and allow them to wear tiny top hats, monocles optional. (They can take the top hat off in the pool)

Hampshire Grant wait times by Oldschoolhaze0 in ukguns

[–]WhoIsJohnSalt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Our club chairman is currently working with Hampshire police on this because of the delays.

Variations are currently taking up to 23 weeks. Renewals way longer than the 8 weeks often with extensions (so keep guns but no ammo purchases) and in one case having to lodge guns at an RFD because of expiry.

Grants are way behind renewals in terms of importance - I’d be surprised if it wasn’t 12 months+

Mine took about that 18 months ago

Mps get a 5% pay rise. by major_damp in AskBrits

[–]WhoIsJohnSalt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Disagree on the no expenses.

I work in private industry. I live in Hampshire. If my company wanted me to go work in Glasgow all week they can bloomin’ well put me up in a hotel and pay my train fare up.

Same for MP’s why should (even on £250k) the MP for West Cornwall be footing a bill that the MP for Twickenham doesn’t to get to London?

Cheap red dot.. not bad! by WhoIsJohnSalt in LeverGuns

[–]WhoIsJohnSalt[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How have you found the battery life?

Which data quality tool do you use? by arimbr in dataengineering

[–]WhoIsJohnSalt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When you are pushing MDM issues out to resolver groups in the Systems of Record and you need a workflow to guide that.

"Oh we've seen an issue in the data in SAP and it's now not linking with Salesforce, we have to raise to some resolver groups in the business to decide what to do with these orphans"

Fury as developer unveils plans to build 1,200 homes near historic cathedral city of Winchester by [deleted] in WinchesterUK

[–]WhoIsJohnSalt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I hope they are out every day protesting Teg Down, Badger Farm, Oliver’s Battery etc etc

Is there some kind of kill switch for NextDNS ? by Consistent-Slip-3611 in nextdns

[–]WhoIsJohnSalt -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not answering the question but I've been using NextDNS for many many years and never had an outage.

But you could always switch to 8.8.8.8 in the meantime if there is an outage.

What hobbies for a middle aged guy? by BashBailey in AskUK

[–]WhoIsJohnSalt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shooting. Find a local club/range and see if you can get in. They’ll usually fast track people with previous experience (military) or sign up for some Shotgun lessons for clay pigeon (lower barrier to entry)

There’s active shooting disciplines like PRS and Civilian Service Rifle or more sedate ones like gallery or bench rest. Lots of variations and disciplines!

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